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JOHN BARCLAY (1734-1798)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 394 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:BARCLAY (1734-1798)  , Scottish divine, was See also:born in See also:Perthshire and died at See also:Edinburgh . He graduated at St See also:Andrews, and after being licensed became assistant to the See also:parish See also:minister of Errol in Perthshire . Owing to See also:differences with the minister, he See also:left in 1763 and was appointed assistant to Antony See also:Dow of See also:Fettercairn, Kincardine . In this parish he became very popular, but his opinions failed to give See also:satisfaction to his See also:presbytery . In 1772 he was rejected as successor to Dow, and was even refused by the presbytery 'the testimonials requisite in See also:order to obtain another living . The refusal of the presbytery was sustained by the See also:General See also:Assembly, and See also:Barclay thereupon left the Scottish See also:church and founded congregations at Sauchyburn, Edinburgh and See also:London . His followers were sometimes called Bereans, because they regulated their conduct by a diligent study of the Scriptures (Acts xvii . 11) . They hold a modified See also:form of Calvinism . His See also:works, which include many See also:hymns and paraphrases of the See also:psalms, and a See also:book called Without Faith, without See also:God, were edited by J . See also:Thomson and D . See also:Macmillan, with a memoir (1852) .

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